pid73 wrote:
Shrimps wrote:
I've never heard of Raph Koster so I couldn't care less about his baseless opinions or pretty much anything he thinks he knows.
This is your problem. You're playing MMOs (or even any kind of social computer game) and don't know anything about Raph Koster?
oh, my. now and then switch off your nintendo and read a book. or two.
That's completely irrelevant.
That's like me saying.. That is your problem you're using electricity or any form of power and you know nothing of William Gilbert (discoverer of electricity in 1550 read a book).
Yes many regard Raph as an expert in MMO's but being an expert just mean you're less wrong in that particular field.
Experts said the Titanic was unsinkable, experts thought that the hindenberg was completely safe, experts used to think you could cure craziness by giving them a lobotomy, and currently experts believe that dark matter could destroy the universe and have created the large hadron collider to create dark matter and find out. smart? no. but some "expert" convinced the world that it's not completely as horrible as you'd think, presumably by promising that it'd be a quick and painless death.
Sorry if I don't put much faith in experts. Some of the worlds greatest things weren't created by experts, pennicilin, peanut butter, flight, cheese, the moving assembly line, the list goes on.